Re: [eclipse-dev] Problem with xerces

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Arus wrote on 10/29/2003 04:36:01 AM:

> I tried to write a plugin, which will show SVG files using Batik viewer.
I
> found such a plugin that based on  Batik 1.1 version, but it
uses crimson
> parser, that is not satisfied our goals, because it can not properly
parse
> SVG file with _javascript_ nodes. 
> The older version of Batik uses org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
. 
> I added  an import node in plugin.xml
>   <requires>
>       <import plugin="org.eclipse.core.resources"/>
>       <import plugin="org.eclipse.ui"/>
>    <import plugin="org.apache.xerces"/>
>    </requires>
> 
> When I try to use that in the Eclipse I receives the following exception:
> SAX2 driver class org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser not found
> I suppose that the problem is in the classLoader.
> This is the part of code, where document is created : 
>             String parser = XMLResourceDescriptor.getXMLParserClassName();
>             SAXSVGDocumentFactory f
= new SAXSVGDocumentFactory(parser);
>    URL url = "">
>    Document doc = f.createDocument(url.toExternalForm());
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Arus
>